Welcome back to The Asia-Pacific Perspective, that monthly show where James Corbett of corbettreport.com and Broc West of apperspective.net break down all the latest news and headlines from the Asia-Pacific region. This month: the South Korean and US armies prepare to stage the largest drills in the world to stoke tensions with North Korea; Japan's invisible army starts to uncloak; and the Fukushima leak is now (finally) an admitted emergency. -corbettreport.com

Story 1:
South Korea, US military drill to fuel tensions
South Korea approves S$7.6 million in aid for North Korea
Inter-Korea Kaesong talks break down amid blames

Story 2:
Inside Japan’s invisible army />
Japan launches largest warship since World War II />
China says no rush to sign maritime accord />

It's been two years since an earthquake and tsunami took down a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, but have any new regulations been installed to prevent future disasters? Paul Gunter, the director of the Reactor Oversight Project at Reactor.org, weighs in on all things nuclear with RT's Erin Ade. -RT.com

David L. Smith of the Geneva Business Insider blog joins us once again for our monthly conversation on economics, finance and politics. This month we cover the bankruptcy of Detroit, the phoney housing recovery, the lack of preparation for the coming financial collapse, and the disaster at Fukushima. -corbettreport.com

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What if the government decided to invent a great lie to justify a disastrous war? What would happen to the people who know the truth? Susan Lindauer and her book, Extreme Prejudice, deliver an explosive, high tension expose of the real facts surrounding the CIA's advance warning of 9/11 and an insider's look at Iraqi Pre-War Intelligence, told by one of the very few U.S. Assets covering Iraq before the War. It reveals the depths of deception by leaders in Washington and London to promote a successful image of their terrorism policy, and the shocking brutality to suppress the truth of their failures from Americans and the world community.

Bio
As a U.S. Intelligence Asset, Susan Lindauer covered anti-terrorism at the Iraqi Embassy in New York from 1996 up to the invasion. Independent sources have confirmed that she gave advance warning about the 9/11 attack. She also started talks for the Lockerbie Trial with Libyan diplomats. Shortly after requesting to testify before Congress about successful elements of Pre-War Intelligence, Lindauer became one of the first non-Arab Americans arrested on the Patriot Act as an "Iraqi Agent". She was accused of warning her second cousin, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and Secretary of State Colin Powell that War with Iraq would have catastrophic consequences. Gratis of the Patriot Act, her indictment was loaded with "secret charges" and "secret evidence." She was subjected to one year in prison on Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas without a trial or hearing, and threatened with indefinite detention and forcible drugging to shut her up. After five years of indictment without a conviction or guilty plea, the Justice Department dismissed all charges five days before President Obama's inauguration.

Lindauer has written a book Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq about her experience. -veritasradio.com

William Buhlman is one of the world's leading experts on the subject of out of body experiences. He has over 40 years of extensive personal out-of-body exploration.
William will be speaking at the Gateways Of The Mind event in London on the 9th and 10th November 2013, his first visit to the UK in 8 years. Here William outlines his presentation and practical session at the event and his reasons for choosing these subjects, notably healing, creative thought forms and resolving blockages.
-gatewaysofthemind.com

NAPLES, FL - A video showing lights hovering over a pool is the talk of Naples. Residents say they have never seen anything like it -- and experts aren't sure either.

Monday night, security officer Debralee Thomas was watching the camera feed from behind a Gulfshore Boulevard condo building just across the street from Venetian Village, when she noticed strange lights swoop in over the pool.

"I realized that it was something that wasn't normal, so I was like 'oh my, what is that,'" Thoma said.

At first glance, what she saw almost looked like a saucer-shaped object up top. Then the object went down into the pool and expanded like a web -- moving back and forth.

After nearly thirty minutes, the object started to disappear.

Thomas said bugs fly up to their cameras all the time, but this was further away.

"It was down on the ground but some of that webbing was longer and it made a funnel down into the pool. Whatever it was doing in the pool, I don't know," Thomas said.

The video was sent to MUFON, a UFO organization in Ohio. Officials at MUFON say it is one of the most fascinating videos they have seen in a while.

They are analyzing it, but they don't think it is a hoax. That's what Thomas' coworkers thought at first, until they saw the video their selves.

"We watched it on tape and to be honest I was so grateful that it was there so I could say it was real…it really happened," Thomas said.

On Wednesday, residents were walking in and out of the office complex to check out the must-see video.

"I have no idea. I've never seen anything like this. The electrical charges coming from it, it's truly unbelievable," said resident Curtis Kate.

But what it is remains a mystery for now. Something Thomas is OK with as long as it doesn't happen again.

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida also looked at the video. Coincidentally, the pool is closed for cleaning over the next few days. -nbc2.com

US President Barack Obama has cancelled a one-to-one with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that was scheduled for next month. The decision, prompted by Moscow giving temporary refuge to the fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden, was met with disappointment in the Kremlin. John Laughland, a director of studies at the Institute of democracy and cooperation in Paris, joins RT to discuss this. Read more at: RT.com

A Japanese official says the Fukushima nuclear plant is leaking some 300 tons of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean per day.

On Wednesday, an unnamed official said the Japanese government believes the contaminated water has been leaking into the ocean for two years, Reuters reported.

The statement comes after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to step up government efforts to solve the problem.

Abe ordered Japan's minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry to deal with the crisis and to make sure the plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) appropriately handles the cleanup process, which is expected to take more than 40 years.

The cleanup process is also expected to cost USD 11 billion.

Meanwhile, head of Japan's Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) Shinji Kinjo said the leaking contaminated groundwater is "creating an emergency."

Reports also say the amount of contaminated water seeping into the Pacific Ocean could rise soon.

The official also said that Tokyo plans to reduce the leakage amount to 60 tons a day by December.

On March 11, 2011, a nine-magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami that inflicted heavy damage on the six-reactor Fukushima plant. The cooling systems of the plant's reactors were knocked out, leading to meltdowns and the release of radioactive material.

On July 24, TEPCO admitted that the Fukushima site's reactors were leaking highly contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean, after steam was seen at one of the reactors.

Last July, a Japanese parliamentary panel found that the incident at the Fukushima nuclear plant had been a "man-made disaster" and not only a result of the tsunami. The report criticized the "government, regulatory authorities and Tokyo Electric Power" for being devoid of "a sense of responsibility to protect people's lives and society." -presstv.com

August 5, 2013–Susanne Posel is an investigative journalist and Chief Editor of OccupyCorporatism.com, an alternative news website dedicated to exposing the elite and their plans to globalize money, governments and people. She has expanded out to touch on all aspects of control the ruling Elite use to coerce the masses into compliance. And because of this fact Susanne believes that non-compliance is the answer to combating the New World Order.

We discuss two main topics: A new US house bill will is designed to deepen the mortgage fraud and foreclosures. Susanne connects the dots to Agenda 21's land grab. She talks about Edward Bernays' propaganda, the bank for international settlements and planned obsolescence. -redicecreations.comdownload hour 1 mp3

The politicians, the media, the financiers and the other supporters of the status quo are not particularly threatened by mass political movements, marches on Washington, or demands for government to do something about the situation. But what they do live in mortal fear of is that people will start taking the matters into their own hands and doing the only thing that it is within our direct and immediate power to do: to withdraw our money from the financial web that they have spun around us.

The idea of a Wall Street boycott is neither new nor radical. It has been advocated many times before, including in the wake of the bailout when, hoping to capitalize on public anger at the bankster class that was so clearly emerging as the real power in Washington, a group called Move Your Money emerged urging the public to take their money out of the Wall Street institutions and into local credit unions and savings and loans. -corbettreport.com

Money manager Catherine Austin Fitts says, “You are seeing a tug of war between the new system that’s coming up and the old system that’s struggling and dying.” Fitts explains it by saying, “Let’s pretend we have a company called USA, and we create a new company called Breakaway Civilization. We move all of our assets out of USA and put them in Breakaway Civilization. We leave union obligations and pension funds . . . in the old USA economy.” Fitts warns, “I think bail-ins are coming . . . the big question is not will we be able to get out insured deposits. I think the big question is how violent will things get?” Fitts biggest worry is not financial collapse. Fitts contends, “I don’t think the people who run the U.S. military or run the United States government are going to say we’re happy to collapse rather than go to war. They are going to go to war. They’re going to shake somebody down.” Fitts goes on to add, “I think gold is the greatest form of insurance you can have during this transition period.” -usawatchdog.com

Writer Graham Hancock returns to discuss his new fiction book War God, why the sovereignty over one's body is the ultimate human right, his recent TED talks controversy, and what he believes will be his ultimate legacy.

The protests "1984 Day," have taken place across the US, most notably in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington DC. The rallies have been organized by a number of social media initiatives by a grassroots organization called Restore the Fourth that demands an end to "unconstitutional surveillance of digital communications." Read more at: RT.com

After the Georgian army launched a full-scale attack on the capital of South Ossetia in 2008, then-Russian president Dmitry Medvedev ordered Russian troops to intervene, the hardest decision in both his political career and life. The Prime Minister speaks with RT's Oksana Boyko about how it started and the behind the scenes political gambles that led to the conflict. -RT.com

Synopsis
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. - Genesis 5:24. The Royal Arch of Enoch: The Impact of Masonic Ritual, Philosophy, and Symbolism documents an undiscovered historical anomaly: how a high degree Masonic Ritual - developed in France in the mid 1700s - included elements of the Book of Enoch which was considered lost until Freemason and traveler James Bruce returned to Europe with copies from Ethiopia in 1773.

These copies were not translated into English until 1821 at Oxford University. This high degree ritual - titled The Royal Arch of Enoch - documents the recovery of the Lost Word of a Master Mason , the Name of God. It is this ritual in particular that has defined, among other things, the American national character. The Royal Arch of Enoch also documents the symbolic restoration of the sun as the premier icon in all of Freemasonry and as the supreme emblem of imperial administration and religiosity lifted from the Ancient Mysteries, incorporated into the Abrahamic Faiths, and carried on in both Blue Lodge and High Degree Masonry. Robert W. Sullivan presents a real life Da Vinci Code/National Treasure mystery, previously unknown to history and historians in both the East and West. -veritasradio.com

“We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity… anything you can imagine we already know how to do.”-Ben Rich, former Head Lockheed Skunk Works (1993)

"If time travel is possible, will be possible, has ever been possible it is with us now." - James C. Horak